Hoa Binh: Nine sentenced to death for drug trafficking

Hoa Binh (VNA) – The People’s Court of
northern mountainous Hoa Binh province has sentenced nine out of 23 drug
smugglers to death on charges of “illegally trafficking drugs, illegally possessing
military weapons and not denouncing crimes”.

At the first instance trial that took place from
February 27 to March 21, the 23 defendants were found guilty of trafficking
1,415 heroin cakes from 2012 to 2015.